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DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Fears Over New Land Deal By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE: Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that has had increased food production in the Europe, North America and Asia. MORE >>
KENYA: A Role For Men in Gender Equality By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI - The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. MORE >>
ECONOMY-UGANDA: Traders Go Down as Prices Go Up By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the country’s currency, the Ugandan shilling, against the dollar. Especially importers have not been able to bring goods in which were ordered when prices were lower. MORE >>
RIGHTS-UGANDA: You Are Worth Nothing By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Widespread gender-based violence against women and children in the conflict zones of the Great Lakes region has received some attention in recent years; less well-known is the extent of sexual violence against men. MORE >>
POLITICS-SUDAN: 'Darfur Was Just A Place Where Evil Lived' Kristin Palitza interviews MAHMOOD MAMDANI, professor of anthropology and political science CAPE TOWN - Analysing the colonial and historical roots of the violence in Darfur, Mahmood Mamdani concludes that the crisis in Darfur is not genocide, but a fight for land, triggered by drought, which has been racialised by outside powers. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-TANZANIA: Protecting the World's Most Expensive Tree By Denis Gathanju* - IPS/IFEJ Moshi, TANZANIA - With the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro providing a backdrop under simmering tropical sunshine, a group of women in Mijongweni village break into song. MORE >>
HEALTH-KENYA: Family Planning Not Only For Women By Joyce Mulama Kisumu, KENYA - In a makeshift room inside an unfinished building in the Manyatta slums in the Western Kenyan city of Kisumu, the neighbourhood’s men regularly congregate to discuss community matters, usually in the presence of the area chief. MORE >>
HEALTH-KENYA: Two Dollars And Change: Enough To Save a Mother's Life By Joyce Mulama KISUMU - At the age of 14, Zulekha Mumma delivered her first child. At 21, the birth of her seventh child killed her. She died from excessive bleeding in her home in Nyalenda, a slum on the outskirts of Kisumu city in western Kenya, some 400 kilometres from Nairobi. MORE >>
RIGHTS-UGANDA: 'When a Man Hurts a Woman, There's Nothing She Can Do' By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA - Mary Atimango left the war-ravaged Gulu district to come and live in Kampala during the peak of the northern Ugandan conflict over fifteen years ago. The 59-year-old now lives in the small peri-urban village of ‘Acholi Quarters’ on Kireka Hill, on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital. MORE >>
TOURISM: ‘‘Uganda Not Just About Idi Amin, Civil War and AIDS’’ By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - Ugandans are unhappy with their tourism authority as they believe that their country’s warm climate and exceptional species, such as the mountain gorilla, should attract as many tourists as neighbouring Kenya. To compound matters, the global economic crisis has shrunk tourist arrivals from Europe. MORE >>
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